Clear surgical lessons for medical students.
Surgery 101 is a compact surgical education series built around clinical scenarios, step-by-step anatomy, and practical ward reasoning. Recent episodes move from prenatal visits and labour assessment to stomas, colorectal cancer operations, and the technology that changed endoscopy.
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Surgery 101 is a structured surgical education series with a practical bedside sensibility. It explains the work of surgery through cases, anatomy, procedures, complications, and the history of surgical tools. The format is direct. Recent reproductive care episodes follow pregnancy from prenatal assessment into labour and delivery, using clinical details such as visit schedules, screening tests, fetal monitoring, cervical dilation, effacement, station, and Bishop score. The teaching stays patient-centered. Amara's prenatal care is framed not only as lab work and imaging, but also as reassurance, guidance, and psychosocial support. Sabrina's labour assessment turns terminology into plain clinical reasoning, showing how findings are gathered, reported, and explained. The colorectal episodes are similarly grounded. Stomas are taught through location, bowel segment, output, and surgical purpose, so a learner can recognize what is on the ward. Colon cancer surgery becomes a lesson in blood supply, mesentery, lymph nodes, resection, and re-anastomosis. Rectal cancer management adds the decision-making pressure of sphincter involvement, surgical margins, low anterior resection, abdominal perineal resection, leak risk, and quality-of-life consequences. The show does not avoid complexity. It breaks it into steps. Its history episodes widen the frame from clinical technique to technological change, following endoscopy and laparoscopy through fibre optics, cold light, video imaging, capsule endoscopy, natural orifice approaches, magnetic colonoscopy, robotics, artificial intelligence, and remote procedure concepts. These stories give instruments a lineage, showing how better light, better images, and better ergonomics changed what teams could do together. The pacing is concise and teacherly, with enough warmth to keep the material from feeling sterile. Surgery 101 is especially useful for medical students and early clinical learners who need a reliable mental map before seeing a patient, entering clinic, or standing in the operating room. It is educational audio with surgical sleeves rolled up.
Made for: Surgery 101 is for medical students, early clinical learners, and health professionals who want concise refreshers on surgical topics. It also suits curious listeners comfortable with anatomy, procedures, and clinical terminology.
What sets it apart: The series pairs case-based teaching with surgical history, moving from bedside decisions to the tools and technologies that shaped modern practice. Its strength is making anatomy, operative logic, and patient communication feel connected.
Welcome to Surgery 101, a series of podcasts produced with the help of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The podcasts are intended to serve as brief introductions or reviews of surgical topics for medical students. We've aimed to cover a single topic in between 10-20 minutes so that you can quickly get a good idea of the basic concepts involved. Every episode is divided into chapters and concludes with several key points to summarize the topic. We are always keen to receive your feedback on our podcasts, and we are accepting suggestions for additional topics. New episodes are published every Friday.'Surgery 101' was created by Dr Parveen Boora and Dr Jonathan White, and is suppo…
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A surgical history episode that finds its force in absence, access, and memory.
Surgery 101 uses Dr. Sebastian's story to open up a broader history of surgery. What starts with surgical memory turns into a sharper account of who gets remembered, and of how race shaped training and practice in early 20th-century America.
Local medicine, told through physicians' lives.
Clinical oncology evidence, translated into treatment decisions.
This episode of Surgery 101 provides an educational overview of rib fractures, covering anatomy, diagnosis, treatment, and surgical indications for medical students and professionals.
This episode explains cardiac tamponade, a life-threatening condition in trauma patients, covering its definition, pathophysiology, diagnosis using Beck's triad and the cardiac box, and emergency treatment strategies.
Host Jonathan White interviews sociologist Dr.
This episode explores recent and future innovations in endoscopy and laparoscopy, including capsule endoscopy, robotic systems, and artificial intelligence, while reflecting on the historical journey of these technologies.
This episode explores the transition from fiber optics to video technology in endoscopy and laparoscopy, detailing how advancements in visual technologies have revolutionized surgical procedures by enabling live video displays.
This episode explores how 20th-century technological breakthroughs, particularly fiber optics by Harold Hopkins and Basil Hirschowitz, revolutionized endoscopy and laparoscopy.
This episode explores the historical development of flexible endoscopy and internal light conduction in surgery, focusing on Rudolf Schindler's contributions during the pre-fiberoptic era.
This episode explores the 19th-century innovations in illumination technology that advanced endoscopy and laparoscopy from theoretical concepts to clinical practice.
This episode introduces a new series exploring the historical development of endoscopy and laparoscopy in surgery, presented by medical student Sunpreet Chima.
This educational episode explains laser refractive surgery, covering its principles, indications, risks, and benefits for medical learners.
This episode explores the history of surgery through an interview with sociologist Dr.